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HAX
HACKERSPACE WEEKEND FESTIVAL

About | Schedule | Volunteer | Sponsors | Talks | Exhibits | Gaming |
"Anti"-socials | Parking | Organizer meetings | Remote participation | Archives


ABOUT

Hax is a weekend festival at Skullspace. It is our annual opportunity to
celebrate and promote our broad hackerspace community, which includes
technologists, musicians, DJs, gamers, crafters, artists and other tinkers. The
festival condenses the hackerspace experience into an entire weekend.

We regret that our location, the 2nd floor of 374 Donald is not mobility
accessible. There are three flights of stairs up 1.5 stories.


HAX 5.0: MAY 16 - MAY 19, 2024


SATURDAY MAY 4, 2024

Hax 5.0 Beta. A warm-up for our big festival weekend, this is our late night
anti-social and dance party in "beta" mode. The lineup may include new
performers and/or established performers trying new things out. Check back for
the line-up.

This is a ticketed event. Buy early for the best pricing.


FRIDAY MAY 17, 2024

Anti-social featuring electronic music, dancing and gaming. A ticketed event,
aprox 8pm-4am. Check back for details and ticket link.


SATURDAY MAY 18, 2024

Saturday afternoon, 11am-5:45pm:
(free event)

 * Exhibits and gaming (workshop/lounge) 11am-5:45pm
 * Talks of interest to a hackerspace community (classroom) 11am-5:45pm

Saturday evening:


6pm-7:30pm A free reception after the talks featuring music to talk over and our
Anti-social licensed bar.

8pm-4am, a third anti-social featuring electronic music, dancing and gaming. A
ticketed event, check back for details and ticket link.


SUNDAY MAY 19, 2024

Chill and open house day
(free event)

noon-4pm

Exhibits and gaming (workshop/lounge/classroom)

Dinner break, 4pm-6:30pm space will be closed. Potentially there will be a group
outing to a pub on foot. To be decided spontantouesly at the space

Movie night with Thor, 6:30pm. Featuring two documentaries until 9pm and
possibly one bonus movie. In person in the lounge and online at
http://skullspace.fullspeed.tv (put that URL in a media player such as VLC).


VOLUNTEER

We welcome volunteers for the smooth running of gaming, exhibits, operations,
and several other roles. email mark@parit.ca for daytime matters and
events@skullspace.ca for evening artists etc.


SPONSORS

 * The members of Skullspace are critical oragnizing and operations volunteers
   and also are funding talk honouria.
 * Les.net provides us sturdy roof-top internet year-round. At the festival this
   supports our remote speakers, movie night broadcast, and guest wifi.


SATURDAY TALKS

Aproximetly 11:00am - 5:45pm, 2024-05-18.

All talks will be available in the Skullspace classroom. A select few will also
be available to remote participants.

We can still accomodate a few more speakers, reach out to mark@parit.ca . See
our call for speakers. Though our main speaker track is on the Saturday
afternoon, we could accomodate a talk early on the Friday evening.

Schedule coming soon, known speakers are:

 * Jim Sutton -- topic TBA
 * Straithe -- topic TBA, by video conference
 * Shibashis Bal -- double presentation:
   * A dive into the NIST AI Framework (An exploration into how some Generative
     AIs meet the NIST AI Guidelines)
   * Challenges on Challenging Disruptions to Our Watersheds (A report on how
     local communities have inquired against companies developing land on
     natural water sheds).
 * Michael Ossmann -- Software defined radio and the law. -- By video
   conference.




EXHIBITS

Reach out to Mark Jenkins mark@parit.ca if you have something to exhibit.

 * A morse code tone practice generator on a VIC-20 -- Mark Jenkins.
 * The Commander X16 development board -- Mark Jenkins
 * A 3D printed part for an arm bar -- Edwin Amsler


GAMING

Table-top gaming sessions with hosts

Return for details. See volunteer.

Video game consoles and setups that will be present
 * NES
 * Sega Genesis
 * N64
 * SuperNT (FPGA SNES clone)


ANTI-SOCIALS

Our festival features three of our signature "anti-socials". These ticketed
events are electonic music dance-parties with DJs, syths, and other artists.
Plus all manner of geeky gaming (video and tabletop).

 * Hax 5.0 Beta -- Saturday May 4, 2024, 8pm-4am. Tickets
 * Hax 5.0 Friday night opening party, 2024-05-17, 8pm-4am, stay tuned for
   ticket link.
 * Hax 5.0 Saturday night party, 2024-05-18, 8pm-4am, stay tuned for ticket
   link.


PARKING

There is a lot of commercial and free street parking in the neighbourhood.

Our block of Donald and nearby Hargrave steet are metred on Saturdays daytimes
with two hours free.
(pay for two, get four free, or just enjoy your free two, pay after for two more
or move to another block).

Notre Dame west of Hargrave has no metres or Saturday/Sunday time limits.

All street parking is free on Sunday.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE AND SCHEDULE

The organizing committee consists of

 * Festival co-chair for talks, Mark Jenkins, mark@parit.ca
 * Festival co-chair for marketting and social logistics, Mark Campbell.
 * Festival co-chair for music and other evening art: Betty Rumbles,
   events@skullspace.ca
 * Festival co-chair for daytime chill (exhibits, gaming, small workshops):
   Casey
 * Movie night director, Thor

Upcoming meetings, in person and online at https://meet.google.com/xnp-heog-rub

 * Tuesday April 30, 2024, 7:30pm
 * Tuesday May 7, 2024, 6:30pm
 * Tuesday May 14, 2024, 6:30pm


REMOTE PARTICIPATION

Our festival is largely in-person, but we have two planned talks that will be
available remotely via Google Meet. Check back for schedule and link.

 * Straithe: topic tba
 * Michael Ossmann: Software defined radio and the law



Our Sunday night movie night hosted by Thor at 6:30pm will be available at
http://skullspace.fullspeed.tv , put that URL in a media player like VLC.

We regularly hang out in two places online

 * Our Discord
 * #skullspace channel on the Liberachat IRC network (web interface)




ARCHIVES

 * Hax 1.0, Oct 14-16, 2016, mailing list announce posts and schedule
 * Hax 2.0, Oct 16-18, 2020
 * Hax 3.0, April 1-3, 2022
 * Hax 4.0, March 31 - April 2, 2023

About | Schedule | Volunteer | Sponsors | Talks | Exhibits | Gaming |
"Anti"-socials | Parking | Organizer meetings | Remote participation | Archives